Langley Wood

Grade II listed - Link.

Grade II listed - Link.

Grade II* listed church : description at this Link.

"Built 1920, dedicated as a war memorial 1921" - Link.

Looking East from TL171106 to St Leonard's church (with a steeple).

The gates were shut and barred but with no fence alongside the gate posts.

Entrance gate on the lane leading to Sandridgebury Farm, though not the entrance to the farm.

This design seems to be Elizabethan

The farm buildings are a motley mix in all states of disrepair. There are builders in the yard

My mind is struggling with the concept of those huge structures as cottages

Viewed looking westwards, with Ferrers Lane to the right and Hillend Farm on the horizon.

One of the very few remaining expanses of heathland in Hertfordshire, with a very delicate habitat created by light soils and a long history of grazing. Once the grazing stopped trees and scrub grew, and shaded out the heathland plants, so there has to be active management now to control the spread of the vegetation cover before these heathland plants are smothered. On the south side of the Common the ground was ploughed up during the Second World War and although now re-seeded with grass, it has a completely different open image to the north side shown here. Oh, yes, and a highwaywoman, unmasked after her death as Lady Ferrers of Markyate, reputedly haunted the Common, and is commemorated by the name of the road through the Common and the name of the local hostelry.